HAWASSA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

CE 6141 STRUCTRURAL DYNAMICS

First Semester (2015/16 A.Y.) February 2016

COURSE OUTLINE

Part I
1. Single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems
• Introduction
• Basic Equation of motion
• Influence of Support Excitation
• Problem statement
2. Free vibration of SDOF systems
• Undamped free vibration
• Viscously damped free vibration
3. Response to harmonic and periodic excitation
• Harmonic vibration of undamped systems
• Harmonic vibration with viscous damping
• Response to vibration generators
• Natural frequency and damping from harmonic tests
• Vibration Isolation: Response and Force transmission
• Vibration measuring devices
• Response to periodic excitations
4. Response to arbitrary, step and pulse excitation
• Response to unit impulse
• Response to arbitrary time varying force
• Response to step and Ramp force
• Response to pulse excitations
5. Numerical evaluation of dynamic response
• Time stepping methods
o Methods based on interpolation of excitations
o Central difference methods
o New mark's method
• Stability of error and computational error
• Analysis of non-linear response
6. Generalized SDOF Systems
• Generalized SDOF systems
• Rigid-body assemblage
• Systems with distributed mass and elasticity
• Lumped-mass system - shear building
• Natural vibration frequency using Rayleigh Method

Part II
7. Multiple degree-of-freedom (MDOF) systems
• Simple systems: Two story shear building
• General approach for linear systems
• Static condensation
 • Planar or symmetric-plan systems: Ground motion
• Inelastic systems
• Problem statement
• Element forces
• Overview of methods for solving the equation of motion
8. Free vibration of MDOF Systems
• Natural vibration frequencies and modes
o System without damping
o Natural vibration frequencies and modes
o Orthogonality of modes
o Normalization of modes
o Modal expansion of displacements
• Free vibration response
o Solution of free vibration equations
o Free vibration systems with damping
o Solution of free vibration equations: classically damped systems
9. Damping in Structures
• Experimental data and recommended model damping rations
• Construction of damping matrix
10. Dynamic response of linear systems
• Two degree-of-freedom systems
• Modal analysis of MDOF systems
11. Numerical Evaluation of Dynamic Response
• Time stepping methods for linear systems
• Analysis of nonlinear systems
12. Systems with Distributed Mass & Elasticity
• Equation of motion
• Natural vibration frequency and modes
• Modal analysis of forced dynamic response
13. Introduction to the Finite Element Method
• Rayleigh-Ritz method
• Finite element approximation
• Comparison of finite element and exact solution

References
1. Chopra, A.K., Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to
Earthquake Engineering, Prentice Hall, 3rd Edition, 2007.
2. Clough, R. W. and Penzien, J., Dynamics of Structures, McGraw Hill, 2nd
Edition, 1993.
3. Paz. M, Leigh, W, Structural Dynamics: Theory and Computation, Springer,
5th Edition, 2004.
4. Humar, J. L., Dynamics of Structures, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1990
5. Any other Structural Dynamics Book.

Adil Zekaria (Dr.-Ing.)

Email adil.zekaria@aait.edu.et